Ljoe met Sarah in the front gates of the school and they went to a nearby café shop, where Bridget, his girlfriend and the other boys in the basketball team where hanging out as well. Sarah was determined to do whatever they plan to do, no holding back. Bridget ushered Ljoe and Sarah to sit down and the boys smirked at each other.
“So guys, what’s the plan?” Sarah perked up, she had a hunch that they already had planned without her.
“Well what you will do is quite simple” Bridget grinned, “All you need to do is bring her to the girl’s bathroom in the cafeteria during lunch time, then text us if she’s there already”
“That’s all?” Sarah confirmed, it seemed too simple.
“Yep, that’s all, leave the rest of the show to us” Ljoe said and high fived the other boys.
“What will you do to her?” Sarah asked curiously and Bridget chuckled.
“We are just going to make her life more colorful…” then she laughed bitchily, in the back of Sarah’s mind she hopes this is all worth it.
The next day came by so quickly, Maxim arrived in school looking prettier than usual. She is still not use to the stares of admiration that she often gets these days but somehow, a weight has been lifted from her chest when she started changing. Not everyone hated her now; she knows the reason of them liking her was quite shallow but it’s a start.
Her classes started smoothly, with no notes plastered on her seat or paper balls thrown at her. Ljoe was unusually quiet and didn’t look at her even once, she was getting suspicious. Maxim wondered why Kwangmin was absent though, she kind of missed his morning greetings by giving her a wide smile and a warm hug, and he was like her backbone, the one that she only considered as a true friend.
Some of the students changed the way they treated Maxim, her seatmates now talk and ask her about school related topics and even had the decency to smile at her back when before she only received scoffs and looks of disgust. She slowly liked the attention; a little pride building up inside her wasn’t that bad right?
The lunch bell rang and everyone scurried out of the classroom, she was surprised to see Sarah waiting outside her classroom for her. This was a first.
“Maxim!” Sarah greeted in an unusual happy way, “Let’s go have lunch together, I have to ask you some questions regarding the upcoming science week”
Maxim raised an eyebrow, the science week will be a month from now and that’s too far, she thought maybe Sarah liked planning in advance so she just nodded and go with her.
“So…do you wanted to be partners for Science week?” Maxim asked and Sarah thought for a moment what to say.
“Uh yeah…sure!” Sarah replied opening the doors of the cafeteria, she immediately spotted Ljoe and Bridget and so were the other boys from the basketball team discussing something. Then there’s Jeff, eating his lunch…the boy looked at her direction and she waved at him, only to realize that Jeff was smiling at Maxim, not to her.
“Let’s go to the bathroom first, I really need to pee!” Sarah pulled Maxim hurriedly to the bathroom, she grinned seeing that no one else is inside but them. Maxim entered the cubicle and decided to pee as well, while Sarah quickly texted Bridget what cubicle Maxim is in. Bridget told her to get out of there and she obeyed, silently opening her cubicle door and dashing out of the bathroom. Bridget and her cronies entered with small buckets in their hands and Sarah widened her eyes, “They are going to soak her wet?” she thought, “Well that won’t hurt her physically I guess…”
Sarah was pulled by Ljoe and made her sit besides Jeff; her heart was racing because of what will happen to Maxim and the sudden encounter with Jeff. Ljoe winked at her, “Lets enjoy the show guys” he smirked and waited. Soon, a scream was heard from the girl’s bathroom and everyone in the cafeteria stopped eating and turned to look what it was.
